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630 Series I Volume XXXVIII-IV Serial 75 - The Atlanta Campaign Part IV

Page 630 THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. Chapter L.


HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, near Kenesaw, June 28, 1864.

Major- General THOMAS:

I will ride over to see you to- day, and will explain fully the matter about which we conversed last night through the wires.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major- General, Commanding.

(Private.)


HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
In the Field, near Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., June 28, 1864-7 a. m.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

In the Field, June 27, 1864.

Major General O. O. HOWARD,

Commanding Fourth Army Corps:

GENERAL: The major- general commanding the department directs that you make immediate preparations to move your corps, with ten days' supply of provisions and forage, and adopt any means in your power to move with the greatest celerity.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff.

General NEWTON,

Second Division, Fourth Army Corps:

GENERAL: In accordance with the above, you will prepare your command for the movement as secretly as possible, and put it in as complete a state of organization as can be after your losses of yesterday.

By order o Major- General Howard:

J. S. FULLERTON,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

(Similar instructions to Generals Stanley and Wood, the last clause being modified so as to read- after the losses you have sustained in this campaign.)


HDQRS THIRD DIVISION, TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS,
June 28, 1864- 4 p. m.

Lieutenant Colonel LH. W. PERKINS,

Assistant Adjutant- General, Twentieth Corps:

COLONEL: Until within an hour the enemy have to- day kept up a brisker fire than usual upon our lines. About or just before noon they made a demonstration by their pickets upon General Hascall's lines (upon my right), which was easily repulsed. As this demonstration of the enemy may have a bearing upon this or some other portion of the lines, I respectfully report it for the information of the major- general commanding the corps.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

DANL. BUTTERFIELD,

Major- General, Commanding Division.


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